BajaNomad - 15 Years since Selena's Passing

15 Years since Selena's Passing

Ken Cooke - 3-31-2010 at 05:35 PM

15 yrs. ago, after the untimely tragedy affecting Selena and her family and music group, I took my Selena cassettes to Rosarito Beach and listened to her music all afternoon long at a favorite restaurant of mine.

Selena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena

noproblemo2 - 3-31-2010 at 07:02 PM

Such a tragic ending to such a promising future. Just watched her last concert again over the weekend too. There will never be another like her. Such a down to earth warm caring person. Long Live the Memory of SELENA!!!!!

[Edited on 4-1-2010 by noproblemo2]

grace59 - 3-31-2010 at 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by noproblemo2
Such a tragic ending to such a promising future. Just watched her last concert again over the weekend too. There will never be another like her. Such a down to earth warm caring person. Long Live the Memory of SELENA!!!!!

[Edited on 4-1-2010 by noproblemo2]

Agreed, noproblemo2! We are big Selena fans in my house. I heard on the radio this morning that it has been 15 years since she was killed. I can't believe it has been so long, yet her music is so timeless.

CaboRon - 3-31-2010 at 08:56 PM

Never heard her .....

wiltonh - 3-31-2010 at 09:55 PM

I was in Corpus Christi Texas the day she died and had to deal with all the police action. They had streets blocked and it created some big traffic jams. Truly a very sad story.

capt. mike - 4-1-2010 at 04:56 AM

was she on American Idol?? :?:

what is her last name?

grace59 - 4-1-2010 at 05:44 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
was she on American Idol?? :?:

what is her last name?

No, way before American Idol (the show). She was Mexican-American Tejano singer...here is the wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena

She just went by the name Selena. If you have never listened to her music you can click the link Ken attached or go to youtube to see video, but look for videos by "Selena" not Selena Gomez...two different people. Also there was a movie made about Selena's life where Selena was played by J-Lo.. I love Selena's music and still listen to her after all this time.

[Edited on 4-1-2010 by grace59]

Ken Cooke - 4-1-2010 at 06:32 AM

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Originally posted by grace59I love Selena's music and still listen to her after all this time.

I went to see her movie (when I lived in Michigan) back in '96. After her murder, I went to K-Mart and bought all of her CDs that I could find. Before that, all I had were her cassettes from the Tijuana pirateria. The stores were flooded at the time with her CDs and then were suddenly impossible to find.

Her backup singer Pete Astudillo's rememberance song of her "Como te extrano" was deleted and can be seen as a live performance, but the original song is no longer available for purchase - you can't even see the video on YouTube!

Metamorphosis

Dave - 4-1-2010 at 08:59 AM

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke

I took my Selena cassettes to Rosarito Beach and listened to her music all afternoon long at a favorite restaurant of mine...

I went to see her movie (when I lived in Michigan) back in '96. After her murder, I went to K-Mart and bought all of her CDs that I could find. Before that, all I had were her cassettes from the Tijuana pirateria.

Before becoming a black man you were a teenage Latina???
:rolleyes:

Does Ripley's know?

How Time Flies when you're having Fun.

MrBillM - 4-1-2010 at 10:29 AM

Fifteen Years ? No Scheisse. Seems just like ayer.

It's difficult for me to verbalize the immense effect that Selena "What's her Name ?" had on my life then and now.

I can only imagine with difficulty how much different my existence would have been without hers.

Pardon me. I must go meditate now.

bajabass - 4-1-2010 at 12:03 PM

Save your rudeness for off-topic please. There are people that care about things you and I may never understand.

Rude ? Moi ?

MrBillM - 4-1-2010 at 12:31 PM

AND, here I thought I was expressing my heartfelt appreciation of Tejana Suprema Selena.

The World just hasn't been the same since.

And, never will be again.

capt. mike - 4-1-2010 at 01:17 PM

Dave and Bill....you guys crack me up, man. :lol:

Ignorant Gringos

Ken Cooke - 4-1-2010 at 05:13 PM

Looks like I need to start more music threads to educate the Off-Topic members about Latin music???

If loving Tejano is wrong, I refuse to be right!

Selena on the Jonny Canales show - where I learned about Selena y los Dinos. :bounce:

grace59 - 4-1-2010 at 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke

If loving Tejano is wrong, I refuse to be right!

Love it!

SIEMPRE SELENA

Ken Cooke - 4-1-2010 at 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by grace59

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke

If loving Tejano is wrong, I refuse to be right!

Love it!

WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE??? :?:

Savoring Selena

MrBillM - 4-3-2010 at 09:11 AM

Yeah, "WAS" is the operative word. A looker. In fact, she looked a lot like a professional gal I once knew for a short time. Probably wasn't her, though. The gal I knew used a different name which may, or may not, have been the real one.

I find it BIZARRE that someone could have an obsession over a "performer" of whatever talent who's been dead for a long time. No doubt, she was good at her particular brand of music and, if you're into that style, that's OK, but getting Maudlin is a little weird.

Besides, there just isn't a lot of mourning time available right now. Besides the aforementioned June Havoc, there's Peter Graves and Robert Culp.

So little time. So many icons.

[Edited on 4-3-2010 by MrBillM]